Organizational Communication

http://www.bravotv.com/flipping-out/videos/needing-an-apology

One of my favorite shows has got to be "Flipping Out" with Jeff Lewis on Bravo, also one of my favorite television channels. Last season, there was quite the organizational conflict during episode 8 about how Jeff Lewis, and his business partner, Ryan Brown, were conducting business. Now to get the jist of things, Jeff is very obsessive compulsive and has an extreme talent for flipping houses. In the past he and Ryan were in a serious relationship together and during which they started a business together which they bought houses, fixed them up, and then sold them for profit. They broke up but remained close friends and "flexible" business partners, meaning they made refferals and still worked on particular projects together. As of late, Jeff was suspicious of Ryan deceiving business leads to believe that he was using his famous name, "Jeff Lewis", exclusively made famous from the television series, to essentially build his business . Jeff accused him of leading clients to believe he was apart of the business deal and was helping to design their property. Furthermore, Jeff found out that Ryan was paying money to Google so when people "googled" Jeff Lewis's name, Brown Design would come up first and lead them to Ryan's design website. All-in-all quite the technological breakdown in a new era by means of doing business. Reality television, blogging, entertainment magazines have brought about this entirely different segment of prosperty and lucrative means of a social study. The video expalins more properly the situation itself, but what other questions might this bring to the table for business? What do people think about Twitter pages and could they be the demise of any business by one miss-tweet? Or are these television series, google alerts and strategic technogogical forces a beast to their business sucess or more of a burden to carry on their shoulders that has the potential to bury their business productivity? Thoughts?...

First Blog!

I would like to dedicate this writing source to Ohio University's National Communications Association Student Club and the Academic Committee that we have recently created within our group. The Academic Advancement Committee's focus is on academic pursuits of the students within our club, their interests in higher education, and creating a voice between student and faculty. NCASC will be hosting our first quarterly dialogue forum this winter which will highlight connections to life, theory and communications. We hope to bring in professors from the communications department, graduate students studying communcations, and will be promoting the dialogue as an event open to any student who would like to participate.
The purpose of our blog is to bring awareness about NCASC and most importantly for students and faculty alike to present things they are learning about communications. Essentially, whether it be how communications seems to overlap in an unlikely or unexpected way such as in the classroom or on television, or if there is something happening in your life that applies to what you learned in class that day. At my three years at Ohio University communications has started to mold the way I think, analyze and interpret everyday occassions, and I know my professors would be proud to hear that. Let it be, the documentation of those times in life. And now, I am figuritively placing my imaginary sword on this blog's right and left shoulders. Enjoy!
-Mackenzie Burkhardt
VP NCASC